Health

The state’s long ER wait times — an average of 228 minutes — predate the current tripledemic.

What’s next for Maryland’s first-of-its-kind Prescription Drug Price Affordability Board, and will its innovative approach to lowering drug prices succeed?

Baltimore police aren’t seeing an uptick in reports, but a Pride Center of Maryland survey found a rising concern in the LGBTQ community about being drugged in a drink at gay bars.

The Baltimore Health Department gets an infusion of money after years of pandemic strain.

The post-Thanksgiving uptick in respiratory illness foreshadows what could be in store following the winter holidays, experts say.

Violence intervention programs must go beyond public health-based approaches and build solutions that consider the complex historical and economic conditions that drive violence in Baltimore communities, Lawrence Grandpre of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle says.

Facing a big shortage of nurses, Baltimore County partnered with St. Joseph Medical Center and CCBC for training.

Caring for children with highly complex emotional and behavioral needs is a challenge that exists across the country. But in Maryland, the problem has worsened over the last decade — and many blame outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

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The report found not all providers offer interpretation through bilingual staff or translation services although they are receiving federal financial assistance that mandates the services, and also that state health officials are not providing guidance or consistently enforcing the rights.

MOMCares, a Baltimore organization that specializes in maternal health, is seeing spiking demand for doula trainings, which founder Ana Rodney attributes to the changes in access to reproductive health services across the country.

FDA considers Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions’ naloxone spray for over-the-counter use.

It’s not easy to tell where science ends, and speculation and agenda pushing begins.

COVID-19 took years off Americans’ lives, but so did other ills, and they all need to be addressed.

The city is hailed as a model for its trap-neuter-release program, but even as it becomes more mainstream, some consider the practice unethical.

Johns Hopkins scientists and others are still looking at flu strains to see how strong they are and how well they match the vaccine.

In this week’s Culture Report, Lawrence Burney highlights the best Baltimore club rap from the year, D.C.’s Shy Glizzy’s new platinum record and a new video series aiming to get more Black Baltimoreans vaccinated against COVID-19.

Former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke recalls the ”scorn, derision and dismissiveness” he encountered when he argued in favor of the decriminalization of marijuana and other drugs in the 1980s. He now applauds the public and political shift to his point of view, but advises caution as drug laws are reformed.

The World Health Organization cited stigma in changing the name of monkeypox to mpox.

About 60 people rallied and marched in Curtis Bay to demand accountability from the transportation company that operates the coal terminal in South Baltimore where there was an explosion last year.